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Recent Posts by Emily

Hello everyone! I have been talking with the teacher in the classroom where I will be doing my student teaching next semester and she brought up an observation about her students this year: she has noticed a lack of effort and interest in her classes. I have been trying to come up with ideas to get them involved a little more and I would love any ideas that anyone may have! One topic that I will b...

Hello everyone! I am a senior at Kent State University and I will be starting my student teaching semester in January. I have been placed in an Honors Chemistry Class. The school is great and the students are very bright and eager to learn. I taught a section of a unit this semester on the periodic table and ionic bonding. While I did okay for my first time teaching, I definitely found out how dif...

Recent Reviews by Emily

This SciGuide is very well put together. It has a variety of resources and lays them out in order of the topics that will be covered in a sensible order. I have been looking for interesting ways to portray the information that I will be teaching during my student teaching assignment and can use this guide to pull some ideas from. I liked the variety of teaching strategies that are included in this collection and the multiple ways that the content is portrayed. I have found that students can have a difficult time with much of the content in this area and teaching them in the ways portrayed in this guide will help keep my students engaged. I would recommend this to any chemistry teacher looking for a new way to present information on this content.

As I get closer to my semester of student teaching, I have been looking for ways to incorporate inquiry into my lessons. Inquiry is exceptionally important when teaching science because it prepares students for real world applications in science and guides them to think like scientists. This collection helped with that by further explaining exactly what inquiry is and how it can be used. It does a good job of breaking down the different levels of inquiry in relatively short and easy to read articles. The article that I found to be the most helpful was Classroom Management and Inquiry-Based Learning: Finding Balance because it laid out concrete steps to incorporate this type of learning into lessons. It gave a lot of good examples that I could relate to. One thing that stood out to me while reading this collection was the idea of inquiry being not only hands-on, but also minds-on. This is a helpful realization as I often get in the habit of thinking a lesson has inquiry because it contains some hands on activities. However, it is equally, if not more, important for those activities to also get the students’ minds engaged as well as their hands. As a pre-service teacher, I found this collection to be very helpful and recommend it to anyone who is looking to dive deeper into inquiry teaching.